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4 months agoI think if you want Mods/Devs/Admins to have better impact, they actually need to have funding. People focus on funding hosting costs, but everyone seems to be assuming that Mods/Devs should be volunteers.
If you’re not donating in some way to the instances/software you use…please start.
As an example, lemmy.world is run by https://fedihosting.foundation, who also run mastodon.world and many other instances. AFAICT the whole group takes in a little over $1000 a month through Patreon/ko-fi. That’s barely enough to cover hosting costs for so many huge instances, much less compensate the several dozen volunteers.
Microsoft did not “give Crowdstrike access to push updates”. The IT departments of the companies did.
The security features that Crowdstrike has forces them to run in kernel-space, which means that they will have code running that can crash the OS. They crashed Debian in an almost identical way (forced boot loop) about a month before they did the same to Windows.
Yes, there are ways that Microsoft could rewrite the Windows kernel architecture to make it resistant to this type of failure. But I don’t think there are very many other commercial OS’s that could stop this from happening.